Marxian economic theory applicability‚ true or false? Marx has always been an arguable economist as well as person since first known by the world. Lots of commentators have discussed about Marx’s work. Here I will focus on the two of those economists‚ Mark Blaug and Fred Moseley. Generally speaking‚ the two of them have opposite thoughts over the validity of Marx’s work: Blaug mostly holds negative critiques about the theory while Moseley considers himself as a Marxist and disagrees. In Fred Moseley’s
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Random-Walk Term Weighting for Improved Text Classification Samer Hassan and Rada Mihalcea and Carmen Banea Department of Computer Science University of North Texas samer@unt.edu‚ rada@cs.unt.edu‚ carmenb@unt.edu Abstract This paper describes a new approach for estimating term weights in a document‚ and shows how the new weighting scheme can be used to improve the accuracy of a text classifier. The method uses term co-occurrence as a measure of dependency between word features. A random-walk model
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to order one. This increased the led time so the company can be protected from unexpected market conditions as the technological industry is evolving too fast. Moreover this new strategy will help them avoiding past mistakes. 2- According to the success of Dell company which adopted a make to order concept as a pillar of its supply chain management‚ this strategy can be successful. The advantages of this strategy are decreasing risks as they have more time to adapt to the market and increasing
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Life is full of unexpected surprises. There are many opportunities when one can secretly wish for something exciting to happen – something out of the ordinary. The real surprise is when the wish unexpectedly comes true. I never believed that something like this could ever happen to me; such a thing that would make me stop and look back at the events in awe. I think you would agree that something as simple as being lost in the forest for less than ten minutes should have no influence on my life. If
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Case Problem 1: Measuring Stock Market Risk As indicated by the case study S&P 500 index was use as a measure of the total return for the stock market. Our standard deviation of the total return was used as a one measure of the risk of an individual stock. Also betas for individual stocks are determined by simple linear regression. The variables were: total return for the stock as the dependent variable and independent variable is the total return for the stock. Since the descriptive statistics
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The Unexpected It was December 18th 2007 and I was in the park with a bunch of my friends. We played some football in the snow and had a good time. We were walking on top of a big hill and we weren’t paying much attention to our surroundings. I started to talk to Justin and the next thing I knew I was on my back going down an ice hill. On my way down I was thinking‚ “Oh god I’m going to get hurt”. There was a big wooden fence at the bottom of the hill. I extended and locked my leg so it wouldn’t
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Walmart: Every Day Low Prices In 1962 the company’s founder‚ Sam Walton‚ opened the first Walmart department store. Since then Walmart has grown exponentially and has established itself not only as one of America’s largest corporation‚ but also as one of the largest public corporations in the world. Walmart’s business model and cookie-cutter store model has allowed the company to gain a tight grip around the average American consumer. Walmart has grown successful in many other countries around
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of the stock market crash‚ is one that brings many theories and ideas to the true cause of the American economy downfall in the late 1920s. Foremost‚ the American economy suffered drastically following the conclusion of WWI‚ many lived under the assumption that the new era of the 1920s was full of economic opportunities‚ which caused over production of goods creating lasting effects on the economy. In addition‚ Americans had a false sense of security in local banking systems‚ stock prices soared
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The US Stock Market. Friday Jan 24th 2014 Close. The week of Friday January 24th 2014 was a bad week for the US stock market. As market close Friday January 24th 2014‚ the Dow Jones industrial average was at its lowest falling by 1.96% making it the worst week since November 2011 moreover the S&P 500 and NASDAQ also fell by about 2%1 Hibah Yousuf‚ CNNMoney. The drop in stock prices was a result of slow economic recovery in the United States‚ EU region‚ and slowdown in China as well as emerging
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macroeconomic variables and stock market indices 1.1 Introduction and Background The financial system is considered to be the key to economic growth. A well developed and sound financial system promotes investment by the identification and financing of profitable business opportunities‚ through the mobilization of savings‚ the efficient allocation of resources‚ by helping to diversify risks and by facilitating the exchange of goods and services. (Mishkin‚ 2001). As such‚ stock markets have assumed a developmental
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